I am not able to install bower.
Steps carried out :
Tried installing bower using : npm install bower
I get the possible node.js incompatible error. The weird thing is that the error log indicates that the script went to the node directory & tried node -v to get an old version of node.js (v0.6.19) though when I do so manually I get v.0.10.12.
Error Log :
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bower
npm ERR! Error: No compatible version found: bower
npm ERR! No valid targets found.
npm ERR! Perhaps not compatible with your version of node?
npm ERR! at installTargetsError (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:488:10)
npm ERR! at next_ (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:438:17)
npm ERR! at next (/usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:415:44)
npm ERR! at /usr/share/npm/lib/cache.js:408:5
npm ERR! at saved (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:147:7)
npm ERR! at Object.oncomplete (/usr/lib/nodejs/graceful-fs.js:230:7)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR! <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR! reportbug --attach /usr/share/node-v0.10.12/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-25-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "bower"
npm ERR! cwd /usr/share/node-v0.10.12
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.19
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! message No compatible version found: bower
npm ERR! message No valid targets found.
npm ERR! message Perhaps not compatible with your version of node?
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /usr/share/node-v0.10.12/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
Need a way to install bower. Any ideas ?
I had the same issue on ubuntu 12.04 here is how I fixed it:
As GabLeRoux mentioned, Node version manager requires curl package to be installed and therefore you might need to install curl before:
sudo apt-get install curl -y
1) Clear NPM's cache:
sudo npm cache clean -f
2) Install a little helper called 'n' (node version manager)
sudo npm install -g n
3) Install latest stable NodeJS version
sudo n stable
4) Install Bower again
sudo npm install -g bower
Try this, because you must install it as superuser:
sudo npm install bower
You must type in your su password.
I recommend using the linux binary from nodejs.org. Available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and installs with NPM:
This should prevent any node/npm version conflicts.
For Cent OS users -
I first had to update NPM to get around this, and was getting errno 34 for bower on CentOS 7
sudo npm install -g npm
sudo npm install -g bower
If you get sudo npm command not found, you can edit /etc/sudoers to include npm bin path
Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin